AMD's latest driver delivers a major performance boost in Borderlands 3
Radeon Image Sharpening is now available on some Polaris GPUs
Published: 12th September 2019 | Source: AMD Radeon Technologies Group |
AMD's latest driver delivers a major performance boost in Borderlands 3
AMD's ready for the release of Borderlands 3, promising users of Radeon graphics cards up to a 16% performance boost when playing the game in DirectX 12 mode under the game's "Badass preset". This performance gain nimber was achieved when using a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.
On top of this, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.9.2, AMD has also brought Radeon Image Sharpening to AMD's RX 590, RX 580, RX 570, RX 480 and RX 470 graphics cards, but only for DirectX 12 and Vulkan applications.
Below are the full release notes for AMD's Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.9.2 driver.
On top of this, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.9.2, AMD has also brought Radeon Image Sharpening to AMD's RX 590, RX 580, RX 570, RX 480 and RX 470 graphics cards, but only for DirectX 12 and Vulkan applications.
Below are the full release notes for AMD's Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.9.2 driver.
Support For
- - Borderlands 3
- - Up to 16 % FPS improvement on the Radeon™ RX 5700 graphics card running Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition version 19.9.2 vs. 19.9.1 drivers.RS-312
- Radeon Image Sharpening- - Now available on Radeon RX 590, Radeon RX 580, Radeon RX 570, Radeon RX 480 and Radeon RX 470 series desktop graphics products for DirectX®12 and Vulkan® applications.
Fixed Issues
- - With v-sync enabled FPS may be locked to 30 on some displays set to 75hz refresh rates.
- - System instability may be experienced on some Radeon RX 5700 series graphics system configurations when watching video content in a web browser.
- - Audio for clips captured by Radeon ReLive may be corrupted or garbled when desktop recording is enabled.
- - Radeon Settings may list core clocks as not available with some Radeon RX 5700 series graphics system configurations.
- - Enabling Enhanced Sync may cause game, application or system crashes on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
Known Issues
- - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice™ may exhibit texture corruption during later parts of the game.
- - Toggling HDR may cause system instability during gaming when Radeon ReLive is enabled.
- - Discord™ may experience an application hang on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products when HW acceleration is enabled.
- - Display artifacts may be experienced on some 75hz display configurations on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics system configurations.
- - Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 may experience stutter on some system configurations.
- - Open Broadcasting Software™ may experience frame drops or stutter when using AMF encoding on some system configurations.
- - HDMI® overscan and underscan options may be missing from Radeon Settings on AMD Radeon VII system configurations when the primary display is set to 60hz.
- - Stutter may be experienced when Radeon FreeSync is enabled on 240hz refresh displays with Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
- - AMD Radeon VII may experience elevated memory clocks at idle or on desktop.
Footnotes
- RS-312 - Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of September 12th, 2019 on Borderlands 3 (DirectX® 12 at ‘Badass’ Presets) at 1080p resolution. Performance may vary based on resolution and settings.
Supported Desktop GPUs
Radeon Desktop Product Family Compatibility
Radeon RX Navi 5700 Series Radeon VII Radeon RX Vega Series AMD Radeon Pro Duo Radeon RX 580/590 AMD Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 560 AMD RX 550 Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R7 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon Pro Duo AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series Graphics AMD Radeon R5 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 Nano Series Graphics AMD Radeon R5 200 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon HD 8500 - HD 8900 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7700 - HD 7900 Series Graphics
Supported APUs
Radeon Desktop Product Family Compatibility
AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors with Vega Graphics AMD Athlon Mobile Processors with Vega Graphics AMD A-Series and FX Processors with Radeon Graphics AMD Ryzen pro Mobile Processors with Vega Graphics AMD Athlon Pro Mobile Processors with Vega Graphics AMD A-Series Pro Processors with Radeon Graphics
Full Release notes for this driver can be viewed here
Download Links
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Windows 7 (64-bit)
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Other than that though my 5700 XT has been great so far. It's a great step up from my 1070, handling all my games at 1440p like a champ.Quote